@inproceedings{L16-1036,
 abstract = {We argue that the field of spoken CALL needs a shared task in order to facilitate comparisons between different groups and methodologies, and describe a concrete example of such a task, based on data collected from a speech-enabled online tool which has been used to help young Swiss German teens practise skills in English conversation. Items are prompt-response pairs, where the prompt is a piece of German text and the response is a recorded English audio file. The task is to label pairs as ``accept'' or ``reject'', accepting responses which are grammatically and linguistically correct to match a set of hidden gold standard answers as closely as possible. Initial resources are provided so that a scratch system can be constructed with a minimal investment of effort, and in particular without necessarily using a speech recogniser. Training data for the task will be released in June 2016, and test data in January 2017.
},
 address = {Portorož, Slovenia},
 author = {Claudia Baur and Johanna Gerlach and Manny Rayner and Martin Russell and Helmer Strik},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)},
 month = {May},
 pages = {237--244},
 publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
 title = {A Shared Task for Spoken CALL?},
 url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L16-1036},
 year = {2016}
}